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Reckless Fellows - The Gentlemen of the Royal Flying Corps (Hardcover)
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Reckless Fellows - The Gentlemen of the Royal Flying Corps (Hardcover)
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The Royal Flying Corps, later the Royal Air Force, was formed in
1912 and went to war in 1914 where it played a vital role in
reconnaissance, supporting the British Expeditionary Force as 'air
cavalry' and also in combat, establishing air superiority over the
Imperial German Air Force. Edward Bujak here combines the history
of the air war, including details of strategy, tactics, technical
issues and combat, with a social and cultural history. The RFC was
originally dominated by the landed elite, in Lloyd George's phrase
'from the stateliest houses in England', and its pilots were
regarded as 'knights of the air'. Harlaxton Manor in Lincolnshire,
seat of landed gentry, became their major training base. Bujak
shows how, within the circle of the RFC, the class divide and
unconscious superiority of Edwardian Britain disappeared - absorbed
by common purpose, technical expertise and by an influx of pilots
from Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. He thus
provides an original and unusual take on the air war in World War
I, combining military, social and cultural history.
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